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January 9, 2017 – 3:09 pm

We’ve returned from our trip to the British Isles. It was a splendid, if not exactly slimming, trip (too many pints and convivial repasts for that, I’m afraid), and it was nice to be almost completely off-line throughout, paying almost no attention to social media and the news. Among the highlights (besides being with family new and old, which was best of all) were: a long walk through the fields of the rural Midlands to a twelfth-century pub; getting to know Dublin (including a sobering tour of the Kilmainham Gaol); a two-day visit to the starkly beautiful Antrim coast of Northern Ireland; the Churchill “War Rooms” museum in London; and seeing the magnificent St. Paul’s again after thirty-four years (with far more understanding and appreciative eyes).